Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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Section 1. Be it Enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General assembly That any two or more contiguous townships in this State may hereafter unite for the purpose of formin[g] a Union School district, and the trustees of schools may constitute them a separate district, and are hereby authorised to pay for tuition of the scholars residing in their respective townships, in the same proportion and upon the same Evidence as though all of the Said scholars resided in the same township. When any Teacher of such Union School shall have scholars from different townships it shall be his duty to make out a separate schedule in the form now prescribed by law for each of such separate townships and return the same by the first Mondays of January and July in Each year. Such teacher shall receive the same compensation as other teachers in the same township in which his School house is located.

Sec.[Section] 2. Whenever it shall be necessary to form a Union district School, whether the said several townships shall be in the same county or not, the trustees of Schools in Each of the townships composing said Union district Shall provide for the location and building of school houses, Employing teachers and do and perform all other business connected with said district the same as if said school district was all in one township. and the certificate of the trustees of schools

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of any township a part of which composing a portion of such Union district shall be sufficient Evidence to authorise the payment of their proportional part of the money due to the teacher of the said Union district.

Sec: 3. The interest on the county school fund shall be apportioned at the same time that the apportionment is made of the interest on the school[,] college[,] and seminary funds.

Sec: 4. The bond required of the township treasurer by the 9^th Section of an Act Entitled “An act to amend the several acts in relation to common schools approved March 4^th 1837.” shall be given to the trustees of schools and their successors in office for the use and benefit of the people of the township Nô Range Nô in the county of and shall be filed with them for safe keeping, and suit may be instituted for a breach of any of the conditions of said bond in the name of the trustees of schools at the time said suit is commenced, and no suit shall be abated by reason of the going out of office of any or all of said trustees of schools but the successor or successors may at any time upon the suggestion of such fact be substituted as parties to the suit, and the cause shall progress as though no change had taken place.

Sec: 5. If any person shall hereafter cut, fell, box, bore[,] or otherwise destroy or injure any tree standing or growing upon the Seminary lands, or sixteenth section appropriated for the purposes of Education, Every

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person so offending shall be able to pay the sum of Eight dollars for Every such offence: and Every person who shall trespass upon any of the lands aforesaid by quarrying stone, or stone coal thereon, or by hawling timber, stone[,] or stone coal therefro[m] shall for every such offence pay double the value of the materials so obtained on said land and Every person who shall trespass on the lands aforesaid in any other manner whatsoever shall forfeit and pay double the amount of damage so done which several penalties shall be sued for and may be recovered by and in the name of the school commissioners of the County in which the land trespassed upon is situated by action of debt before any Justice of the peace when the demand does not Exceed one hundred dollars, and all Justices of the peace are hereby expressly Empowered to try offenders under this act as in other cases of debt, and in all cases when the amount claimed exceeds one hundred dollars, the Circuit Court of the State shall have exclusive jurisdiction, and concurrent jurisdiction when the demand is less than one hundred dollars Provided that it is hereby made the duty of all Justices of the peace and constables, Grand and Pettit Jurors, trustees of schools, and all county officers to give information to the school commissioners of any violation of the provision of this act

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Sec. 6 That the act Entitled “An act to prevent trespassing by cutting timber approved Feb^y[February] 27. 1819.” and “an act to prevent trespassing on seminary and school lands” and also “an act relating to schools approved Feb^y 17, 1827.” be and the same are hereby repealed

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01/27/1840
Calhoun, John

Passed House Reps
Jan 27^th 1840
J Calhoun Clk[Clerk] H. Rep

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Nô 110.

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A Bill For an act relative to Schools and school lands

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Engrossed.

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Passed

1Orlando B. Ficklin introduced HB 130 in the House of Representatives on January 15, 1840. The House referred the bill to a select committee. The select committee reported back the bill on January 17 with amendments. Representatives offered further amendments, and the House referred the bill and proposed amendments to the Committee on the Judiciary. The Committee on the Judiciary reported back the bill on January 18 without amendment, and the House apparently did not further consider the amendments offered on January 17. The House passed the bill on January 27. The House reported the bill’s passage to the Senate, but the latter took no action.
Journal of the House of Representatives, of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their Called Session, Begun and Held at Springfield, December 9, 1839 (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1839), 167, 193-94, 202, 228, 259; Journal of the Senate of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their Called Session, Begun and Held at Springfield, December 9, 1839 (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1839), 189.